Gas pedal stuck doing 130mph for 60 miles

mistral · 2006-03-11T11:37:13+00:00

Following account taken from a British paper describing the harrowingaccount of a BMW 318 with a stuck gas pedal at 130 mph. I have toquestion the driver's sanity--when told his car is a write-off after hehad flipped it, he said..."I'd buy another BMW because, although therewas a problem, it saved my life in that crash." Yes, but if the pedaldidn't get stuck......A motorist was trapped in his car driving at almost 130mph for 60 milesafter the accelerator Nicolle, 25, was unable to stop theautomatic BMW going at top speed after the malfunction on the A1.Kevin Nicolle: 'I couldn't get the pedal off the floor. His terrifyingjourney, which was followed by four police cars and a helicopter, endedwhen he smashed the car into a roundabout, flipping it on its roof.Amazingly, the former lorry driver walked away from the accidentuninjured."The whole thing was just a blur," he said. "I can't get it out of myhead. I was terrified, hysterical and crying. "Every time I close myeyes I remember it. "It's a miracle I didn't collide with anothervehicle or cause a pile-up, but I had a lot of close shaves withlorries and cars and swerved about trying to avoid them."Mr Nicolle was driving back from friends in Newcastle to his home inSouthsea, Hants, last Sunday, when the accelerator on his automatic BMW318 jammed at Catterick, near junction 53 of the A1. He then travelled60 miles in 26 minutes, passing through three counties."I had been driving for quite a while when I realised the acceleratorpedal was stuck down," he said. "I had gone into the fast lane and Icouldn't get the pedal off the floor. I used my hands-free phone andtried the AA to ask them what to do. At that point I wasn't panickingbecause I jammed my foot on the brake and that was keeping the speed toa steady 70mph. "I told the AA I couldn't slow down. I thought theymight be able to give me some advice but they told me to hang upstraight away and phone the police. I dialled 999 and spoke to a womanand by this time I was...

Mar 11, 2006 27 Replies

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Huw 20 years ago

Hold on one cotton pickin minute! Do you mean to say that you could not figure out and action remedial action within a maximum of five seconds? Hint, if you don't think you can, take a bus for the good of all.

Huw

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Tomislav BuriÃ¦ 20 years ago

:-))

-- It's a good idea to drive a little Japanese/Ford/whatever shopping machine once a year to remind yourself why you're in a BMW for the rest of the year. by John Burns. '98 328i coupe t.

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Dodgy 20 years ago

On Sat, 11 Mar 2006 15:18:34 -0000, "zerouali" waffled on about something:

My thoughts exactly!

I know that bit of the A1, it has lots of speed cameras.

I bet he's just bowled past one, got flashed and remembered what his teachers told him at school when he hadn't done his homework.

Namely, "The bigger and more impressive the story, the more likely you are to be believed".

Dodgy.

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Dodgy 20 years ago

On Sun, 12 Mar 2006 20:25:34 GMT, "william Ako" waffled on about something:

I have done.

I put my foot under the pedal and pulled it back up. Thinking time, probably half the time it took me to say "Eh? what the...?"

Having said that, it wasn't a BMW, maybe they're more scary. :o)

Dodgy.

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Dodgy 20 years ago

On Sat, 11 Mar 2006 14:09:50 +0000, snipped-for-privacy@burnt.org.uk waffled on about something:

I hope he was using hands-free. :o)

Dodgy.

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phoenix 20 years ago

Yes, he was - according to the BBC report.

Regards

Bill

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The UK has professional morons?

We only have the one. We call him "Mr. President".

-- C.R. Krieger (Not fooled)

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Dodgy 20 years ago

So do we!

Dodgy (in the UK)

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